A Journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandGood Press, 19.11.2019 - 210 Seiten The book describes a journey through Scotland beginning in Edinburgh. Many of the islands of the Hebrides are visited, each of which is described individually. |
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... seems never to have afforded to man or beast a permanent habitation. We found only the ruins of a small fort, not so injured by time but that it might be easily restored to its former state. It seems never to have been intended as a ...
... seems never to have afforded to man or beast a permanent habitation. We found only the ruins of a small fort, not so injured by time but that it might be easily restored to its former state. It seems never to have been intended as a ...
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... seems commonly to be in Scotland, a smooth way is made indeed with great labour, but it never wants repairs; and in those parts where adventitious materials are necessary, the ground once consolidated is rarely broken; for the inland ...
... seems commonly to be in Scotland, a smooth way is made indeed with great labour, but it never wants repairs; and in those parts where adventitious materials are necessary, the ground once consolidated is rarely broken; for the inland ...
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... seems to be a place eminently adapted to study and education, being situated in a populous, yet a cheap country, and exposing the minds and manners of young men neither to the levity and dissoluteness of a capital city, nor to the gross ...
... seems to be a place eminently adapted to study and education, being situated in a populous, yet a cheap country, and exposing the minds and manners of young men neither to the levity and dissoluteness of a capital city, nor to the gross ...
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... seems to preclude the mind from contact or sympathy. Events long past are barely known; they are not considered. We read with as little emotion the violence of Knox and his followers, as the irruptions of Alaric and the Goths. Had the ...
... seems to preclude the mind from contact or sympathy. Events long past are barely known; they are not considered. We read with as little emotion the violence of Knox and his followers, as the irruptions of Alaric and the Goths. Had the ...
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... seems to recommence upon new principles. That before the Union the Scots had little trade and little money, is no valid apology; for plantation is the least expensive of all methods of improvement. To drop a seed into the ground can ...
... seems to recommence upon new principles. That before the Union the Scots had little trade and little money, is no valid apology; for plantation is the least expensive of all methods of improvement. To drop a seed into the ground can ...
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LOUGH NESS | |
Keith a small island which neither of my companions had ever visited | |
GLENSHEALS | |
GLENELG | |
RAASAY | |
ULINISH | |
OSTIG IN | |
GRISSIPOL IN | |
ULVA | |
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afford ancient appearance Armidel bagpipe Bards believe boat Boethius Boswell called castle cattle chief clan commodious common commonly considered continued convenience conversation cows curiosity danger delighted dignity distance domestick Dunvegan Earse easily elegance English entertained evil expected Fladda Fort Augustus gentleman give goats Grissipol ground heard heath Hebrides Hebridians Highlands hills honour horses hundred ignorance Inch Kenneth inhabitants inquire Inverness Islands Isle journey kelp labour lady Laird land language lately learned less live Macdonald Maclean Macleod Maclonich Macsweyn miles Minister mountains Mull nation never perhaps pleasure plenty polished language publick Raasay reason rent rock Scotland Second Sight seems seen seldom Senachi sheep shew Sir Allan Slanes Castle sometimes square miles stone stranger supplied supposed Table of Contents Tacksman Taisch Talisker tenants thought told travelled Victor Hirtzler violence wall wind